... had to be shipped on vessels constructed by English shipbuilders and that at least three-quarters of the ships' crews had to be English. Sometimes such regulations backfired. During the French and Indian War (1754-1763) in North America, the British Parliament sought to increase revenues to pay the costs of defending the American colonies. It used the Navigation Acts to ... revolution had many causes. Long-term social, economic, and political changes in the colonies before 1750 provided the basis for an independent nation with representative political institutions. More immediately, the...

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... and a hunger for a quick killing. The threat that most unsettled the English, however, came from the French, who in the 1750s were engaged in a global war with Britain. In 1746, the French boldly seized Madras and in 1750 their Governor, Joseph Francois Dupleix, ingeniously set about hiring and training native ... smart uniforms and transformed into soldiers, these men became the envy of local princes, who were soon turning over tracts of land in exchange for French-trained sepoys. In this way France came to control a large part of southern India. The British cause seemed doomed--until ...

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... Western coast of Africa and the "New World" provided. France was a predominant figure in the trading and exploitation of African slaves, in the ten years spanning 1720-30 French ships took over 85,0008 enslaved Africans to the plantations in the Americas. This figure only rose as the decades passed and Frances total figure stands at around 1,250,0009 ... the transatlantic slave trade to the economic growth in France was notably highlighted by C.L.R. James in his book "The Black Jacobins" when he stated "in 1789 the French West Indian Colony of San Domingo supplied almost two-thirds of t...

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... was a move from 84,000 new homes to 240,000 in 1957, this growth development is mainly due to government intervention which was based on Keynes theories. Like Britain, the French government realised that they could help their economy to develop and grow. They introduced polices where the state ran certain large state owned company's and helped increase the strength of ... French industry. This first happened in the area of power supplies, there capacity of electricity increased five folds between 1946 and 1970, and they have also supplies of atomic energy. Between ... ...

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... . On 27 July 1857 Benjamin Disraeli delivered the most important speech in Parliament on the Sepoy Rebellion. He began his speech with an analysis of how both the American and French Revolutions originated and compared them with the outbreak of the mutiny in Meerut. Disraeli explained how seemingly insignificant events "proved to be pregnant with momentous consequences."77 So ... ...

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... fuels. Russia has only reprocessed fuel from its light-water reactors - RBMK fuels have been stored - and Germany and Japan have been forced by circumstance to rely on British and French reprocessors and to store increasing amounts of spent fuel. What makes Britain unique is its lack of any current plans to utilise the plutonium separated through reprocessing. It was envisaged ... ...

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